ISP Information:
A microprocessor used in an embedded system. Typically these processors are smaller, consume less power, and utilize a surface mount form factor, as opposed to more standard consumer processors. Embedded processors are only sold to consumers pre-built into embedded systems, not separately.
ISP Glossary:
Embedded Processor - hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Minter) wrote Southwestern Bell Telephone Company dated *1924*; it was the size you mentioned, written out in pen and ink in a most ecquisite handwriting, (obviously a bookkeeper/school teacher style of writing)I always had trouble with handwriting and it drove my parents andteachers crazy. They were raised in the day when handwriting wasalmost an art. By my day the cursive script standard had been revisedwith less curly-cues. Anyway, as soon as my teachers would accepttypewritten reports (8th grade) I typed everything and haven't stoppedsince. (Of course now my employer doesn't like my typewriter andwants stuff done on the word processor ). (In high school I usedour computer-timesharing Teletype machine for stuff, with the papertape it made a crude word but usable processor although the all-capswas limiting.) stating her total bill for that month was $6.28 which included theThe inflation factor from then to now is about 21, which makes thata pretty expensive phone bill!For all their talk about universal service, it wasn't until well afterWW II that the Bell System achieved it. In the Depression they lostcustomers. Many people lived in high density cities where a hallwayor corner store payphone sufficed. In the war and immediate postwarera, there was no equipment or capacity. Also in the postwar era wasa big shift from party to single line service.I remain curious as to what is the party-line usage today in the U.S.Some states have none at all, others limit it to existing customers.I suspect in the 1980s and 1990s there was a big push to rewire oldrural loops; by then the technology was cheap enough.
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